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10h ago The United States takes part. History shows that major powers get burned when they treat escalation as someone else's problem. He also confirms Russia will use the coming winter to destroy what rem… -8.0
1d ago The sentences below best shows the scale of the problem data centres present: "There are 315 datacentres in the queue to connect to the UK’s electricity grid, representing 73GW of demand. This is … ×2 -4.0
1d ago This amazing data visualization shows how the wind storm on March 13 affected the U.S. power grid. www.facebook.com/reel/1090141...? ×2 +2.0
22h ago Internet has been really bad since yesterday and a massive power outage has only made it worse today. Not been feeling motivated either, so I'm taking a raincheck for tonight's stream. 💝 #streams… -3.5
1d ago Even if thye get a foothold the counter-insurgency will go deep into the US taking out the electrical grid, telecom and fuel supplies. Europe will help us. America the shithole banana republic will… -8.0
1d ago Trump blocks foreign grid parts President Trump declared a national emergency to protect the U.S. electric grid, banning the purchase and installation of certain foreign-made components and citing… -1.0
7h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning discusses electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/AQ619b7 ×2 +1.0
8h ago [cont.] that can have significant implications for our electricity grid, water, land, air quality and surrounding communities. Hamilton has already been at the centre of debate over whether new AI … -3.0
11h ago Defining these "data centers" as central components of our national security, military and intel agencies, and also defining & regulating them as "utilities" central to our national power grid. +1.5
13h ago Columbia Planning and Zoning to discuss electric grid needs as it considers data center rules https://ift.tt/2yCUT0e ×2 +2.0
13h ago How will data centers affect the electric grid? Join WEI for Data Centers and the Grid, a Forward in Energy Forum on energy demand, reliability, affordability, and future grid planning. Oct. 27, … +3.0
16h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of their power draw back into the electrical grid using green energy, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don'… +3.0
16h ago Data centres should generate 20 percent of there draw back into the electrical grid, employ folks only from within the state and pay there fair share of taxes so folks don't have to subsidize these… +3.0
17h ago Does anyone remember when Australia was just excited about hosting the Olympics? Now it's a race for data centers. But as we roll out the red carpet for tech giants, are we ready for the environmen… -2.5
20h ago Texas couldn't be bothered to upgrade the electric grid during winter storms, but they're just now upgrading the electric grid for these data centers. -4.0
1d ago Also don't need data centers to use resources we need. Don't need the noise pollution they cause. The water pollution they cause. The electric grid drain they cause. They're all part of the same pr… -7.0
1d ago Danish Parliament adopts "emergency plan" for electricity grid, puts data centers at the back of queue +3.0
1d ago Following a cyberattack on Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Russia, the company experienced a major "power outage" was reported, rendering a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure unavailable.The… ×2 -4.0
1d ago “After the SOU attack on the Yandex data center in Sasovo, there is a large-scale failure in the company A "power outage" was recorded, which made a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure inacc… ×2 -3.0
1d ago Data Centers Are Breaking The Power Grid. #DataCenter It is an endorsement of environmental destruction. youtu.be/X71le3av1So?... -4.0
1d ago Concurrently, an ongoing push in robotics and automation will reduce Super-Intelligence's dependence on human labor. I daresay the current hysterical rush to build data centers and "ugrade" the el… -3.5
1d ago I think the weirdest thing my kiln did was display incorrect post-firing numbers/data after a power outage. Unplugging it and letting it sit for a few seconds fixed it. My kiln has a KilnMaster co… -4.0
1d ago Theft? Amid data center boom, consumers shoulder costs of upgrading the electrical grid share.google/GThLpCaTEia3... ×3 -5.5
1d ago Yes, the draft permitting bill contains nice language about making data centers pay their own power grid costs, but the fine print leaves most of the details up to state governments and utilities -… ×2 -3.0
1d ago Data Center Demand Stalls Power Grid Expansion #PJM #EnergyGrid #DataCenters #PowerGeneration #FERC #ElectricityDemand ×2 -3.0
1d ago "If we keep trying to cram more GPUs into data centers, we are going to melt the power grid." — from "Quantum Meets AI: The Next Computing Bottleneck Is Already Here" -4.0
1d ago This is the Linux Foundation we're talking about, so the motivation is to keep data centers wired: Linux Foundation Launches OpenGrid to Build Open, Shared Infrastructure for the World’s Electric G… +3.0
1d ago "Rising electricity demand from manufacturing and data centers could present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernize the electric grid, but rising electricity bills might make such investme… +1.5
1d ago Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage… +6.5
1d ago Happy #EEDay2026! ⚡ Energy efficiency is one of the simplest ways to make life more affordable, from lower utility bills and cheaper transportation to more comfortable homes, lower business operati… +6.0

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